Abu Ubaidah Yusuf al-Anabi

Abu Ubaidah Yusuf al-Anabi was an Algerian al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader. On 9 September 2015, he was designated a terrorist by the US State Department after appearing in a 25 April 2013 video calling for attacks against France's interest across the world in response to their intervention in the Malian Civil War. On 27 June 2016, he appeared in a propaganda video "Lift the Siege of Benghazi" in which he praised the al-Qaeda fighters in Benghazi, Libya and asked for help in fighting there.